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by nwiswell 3y ago
"Bankruptcy is literally worse than death" is a new one for me, gotta be honest. If you really feel that way, there's always the emergency exit.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> I am only one serious illness away from bankruptcy and that is stressing me out Well, you're only one serious illness away from death. I'm not trying to be flippant here; there are more things that can properly kill you rathe
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> That being said, I doubt Bitcoin will be outlawed in the West, and generally agree that it will be around for the long term. Well, not entirely without precedent, since private ownership of gold was outlawed nationwide in the US during
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Isn't this counter-argument equally applicable to silver or gold?
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> If you can provide an example of such a diverse set of languages becoming a new language, that would be interesting. It's certainly not 20 languages, but Singlish (Singapore creole) has a number of influences. https://e
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by nwiswell 3y ago
This exact code appears online as part of the IOCCC 1986 (it was a submission), so it's likely that this was indeed part of the training set for this LLM and that there is a significant corpus of text discussing this particular progra
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by nwiswell 3y ago
This is how it works for small vs. large business in ANY skilled/professional field, whether we're talking lawyers, accountants, engineers, whatever. If you want employees to stay, then incentivize them accordingly. If that means
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by nwiswell 3y ago
If it's because of the hops, you will probably have less of a reaction if you drink a sour beer, which typically have a lot less hops. You could give that a try as a partition test. You might be able to find a Lambic or Gose at the sup
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Anything that begins in crime never has a future. I guess the United States doesn't have much of a future either? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I agree. A lot of people seem to believe that centralization is the problem, and ignore Wikipedia, which has been true to its mission far longer than Reddit or Twitter have, and it never needed a decentralized model. The simple explanation
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by nwiswell 3y ago
You think it's satire that there are people that don't brush their teeth but do drink water?
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SFO is in San Mateo County.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> The additional costs to the healthcare system due to people being overweight probably exceed 12000/person/year This is a big claim to assert without evidence. If it was the case then insurers would already be adding the drugs
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> I wonder if that’d go differently today? I hope so. Well, it would put said executive out of a job, so probably not.
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What's stopping you?
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by nwiswell 3y ago
That's fair, although that movie is itself a little bit "how do you do, fellow hackers?"
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It's not so much that I disagree with any of this so much as I totally disagree about the timescale. We're iterating on LLMs really fast, which makes it seem like AI as a whole is progressing at warp speed, but there's no ind
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Harari's next zinger: the internet does not empower clickbait -- clickbait empowers the internet!
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Recommendation algorithms are absolutely not what is meant by "AI" in the current lay understanding. You can still have very problematic recommendation systems that do not contain a single neuron.
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It is embarrassing how much we seem to legislate out of a place of ignorance or fear. Where was this attitude when social media was taking over the internet? We just stood back while it dramatically reordered society. But now we're exp
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It's obviously tongue-in-cheek, but it's also not not what they said.
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> you can still do useful things with it that you couldn't before like > ... > If f(n) is the nth Fibonacci number schedule an appointment in f(5) days hmmm
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by nwiswell 3y ago
https://election.princeton.edu/
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by nwiswell 4y ago
The penalty of the certain
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Absolutely nothing compared to how much the federal government is "earning" because inflation is running hotter than the average rate of interest on Treasury bonds. At a 7% rate of inflation and a 2% average interest rate, it amou
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by nwiswell 4y ago
There is contagion: loss of confidence in banks. This is why FDIC exists in the first place.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
That is a reasonable sacrifice in exchange for a functional financial system. For what it's worth, TARP ended up turning a profit for the government, so in my mind there's some track record of stiff-nosed decision making at Treasu
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> Has the US successfully built anything big or hard in a generation or two? High speed rail? Subways? Tunnels? Mass transportation? Housing? Any infrastructure, really? We have a political problem and no amount of engineering or investm
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Is it monolithic SoC or advanced packaging? There's no reason you can't have the processor at 3nm and the modem at 6nm with chiplets
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> is there a way to microdose caffeine? Er... Using a milligram scale, measure a hundred milligrams out, dissolve it into perhaps 100 ml or 500 ml of water (depending on your target dose) and use a pipette or small measuring cup to dispe

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